Louisa Masters Audiobooks

Enticing the Elf: fantasy romance from Elf Magic, read by Joel Leslie

1 audiobook reviewed

★ 4.6/5 average

452 listener ratings

Who is Louisa Masters?

Fantasy romance has a grammar of its own, and a title like Enticing the Elf speaks it fluently: a verb of pursuit, a creature out of the older stories, and the promise that the two will be brought together with rather more charm than solemnity. Louisa Masters writes it as part of Elf Magic.

Our catalogue files the recording under LGBTQ+ and romance together, and that double shelving is doing real work. Queer romance inside a fantasy setting has become one of the liveliest corners of the genre, partly because invented worlds get to set their own rules about who belongs where, and partly because the readership has been asking for it for years. Seven hours puts this at the trim, propulsive end of the form.

Louisa Masters in audiobooks

Joel Leslie narrates, and a story with non-human characters asks more of a reader than a contemporary does: accents, registers, a world that has to sound audibly unlike ours without becoming a pantomime.

Several hundred verdicts have gathered at a score comfortably above four and a half stars, which for series romance suggests an audience that keeps coming back rather than a single well-timed success. If you are new to this world, it makes a perfectly good doorway, and the shorter running time keeps the experiment cheap. The listing below is the place to start.